- lit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 豬八戒|猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记; fig. to counterattack
- to make bogus accusations (against one's victim)
Characters
- 倒 (倒): to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally; to fail; to go bankrupt; to overthrow; to change (trains or buses); to move around; to resell at a profit
- 打 (打): dozen (loanword)
- 一 (一): one; single; a (article); as soon as; entire; whole; all; throughout; "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1); also pr. [yao1] for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
- 耙 (耙): a hoe; to harrow
Resources
- Wiktionary: 倒打一耙
- MDBG: 倒打一耙
- Examples with 倒打一耙 on Tatoeba
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